Lake · Germany
Pilsensee
Lake in Starnberg district, Bavaria, Germany
- Area
- 1.8km²
- Average depth
- 7.1m
- Elevation
- 535m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 6.2km
- Volume
- 0.013km³
Pilsensee is a lake in Germany. It covers 1.8 km². On average it is 7.1 m deep. Its surface lies 535 m above sea level.
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Stay, sail and get there
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The water
How warm is Pilsensee?
The water is warmest in July, around 23 °C at the surface, and coldest in January, around 0 °C. The surface averages 20 °C or more from June to August: comfortable for most swimmers.
The lake usually freezes over for about 19 days a year, from around 14 January to 1 February.
On the shore, afternoons reach 23 °C on average in July and 2 °C in January. The driest month is February (59 mm of rain), the wettest August (139 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (59 readings). Shallow bays and beaches are often warmer.
From above
The whole lake from space
Month by month
The year at the lake, month by month
Not a forecast: these are averages over many years. Water is the 2013–2021 average; air, rain, sun and wind are the 1991–2020 average.
Water: 2013–2021 averageClimate: 1991–2020 average
| Month | Water°C | Water high°C | Air high°C | Air low°C | Rainmm | Rainy daysdays | Sunh/day | Windkm/h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | Ice | — | 2 | -5 | 76 | 13 | 1.8 | 12 |
| February | 1 | 2 | 3 | -4 | 59 | 12 | 3.5 | 12 |
| March | 5 | 8 | 8 | -1 | 69 | 15 | 4.9 | 12 |
| April | 11 | 14 | 14 | 3 | 68 | 13 | 6.6 | 10 |
| May | 17 | 19 | 18 | 8 | 123 | 18 | 6.7 | 9 |
| June | 21 | 23 | 22 | 12 | 137 | 19 | 7.7 | 8 |
| July | 23 | 23 | 23 | 14 | 134 | 18 | 7.7 | 8 |
| August | 22 | 23 | 23 | 13 | 139 | 17 | 6.9 | 8 |
| September | 20 | 21 | 18 | 9 | 92 | 14 | 5.4 | 8 |
| October | 15 | 18 | 14 | 5 | 77 | 12 | 3.6 | 9 |
| November | 9 | 12 | 8 | 0 | 62 | 12 | 1.7 | 10 |
| December | 3 | 5 | 3 | -3 | 67 | 14 | 1.5 | 11 |
Water: LakeTEMP (Landsat 8, 2013–2021). Air, rain, sun and wind: NASA POWER, 1991–2020 averages. A rainy day has at least 1 mm of rain. Sunshine hours are derived from measured solar radiation.
Size & depth
How big, how deep
- On average, water stays in the lake for about 5 months before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 52 km² of land.
- About 0.9 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
Around the shore
What's around Pilsensee
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 4beaches and swimming spots
Strandbad Pilsensee, Strandbad Widdersberg, Strandbad Pilsensee Ost
- 1campsites
Campingplatz Pilsensee
- 2boat hire and water-sport clubs
Pilsensee, Bavarian Waters
- —marinas and slipways
- —ferry piers
- 3viewpoints
- 3hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Gästehaus Jäger, Ferienwohnung Thoma, Gasthaus Hotel Pilsenhof Entenbraterei
- —fishing spots
- 8restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Herrsching am Ammersee10,000 people
- Seefeld7,033 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Munich Airport (MUC), 58 km in a straight line.
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Recent years
How each month compared
Afternoon high on the shore. The first row is the reference, the 1991–2020 average in °C; the years below show the difference from it: warmer in orange, cooler in blue.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991–2020 average | 2.0 | 3.4 | 8.3 | 13.7 | 17.7 | 21.5 | 23.1 | 22.6 | 18.1 | 13.6 | 7.5 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | +2.9 | +4.3 | +0.5 | +2.6 | −0.9 | −1.7 | +0.1 | +0.3 | +1.2 | −0.9 | +1.6 | +0.1 |
| 2021 | −1.5 | +3.6 | −0.4 | −2.9 | −3.1 | +1.9 | −0.5 | −2.0 | +1.9 | −0.1 | −1.4 | +0.8 |
| 2022 | +1.2 | +2.7 | +1.8 | −1.8 | +2.0 | +2.7 | +1.4 | +1.8 | −0.8 | +4.3 | +2.0 | +0.8 |
| 2023 | +2.3 | +2.3 | +1.7 | −2.6 | −0.6 | +1.4 | +1.1 | +1.4 | +4.8 | +4.0 | −0.1 | +2.3 |
| 2024 | +1.6 | +5.8 | +3.4 | +0.8 | +0.5 | +0.4 | +1.3 | +2.4 | +0.4 | +2.0 | +0.2 | +0.7 |
| 2025 | +1.9 | +1.8 | +2.0 | +1.5 | −0.8 | +2.7 | −0.9 | +0.7 | +0.7 | −0.8 | +0.1 | +2.1 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
About these numbers
| Outline, area, depth, volume | HydroLAKES v1.0 (Messager et al. 2016) · CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|
| Water temperature and ice | LakeTEMP v1 (Korver et al. 2024), Landsat 8 2013–2021 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Air, rain, sun, wind | NASA POWER, 1991–2020 · public domain |
| Names and description | Wikidata (Q180006) · CC0 |
| Around the shore | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
Every figure is an average or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
